The Actors Fund Retirement Home by Malik

The Actors Fund Home is one of the best places to work in the area of Englewood NJ. i have a good experience from working there i have worked there for the past three years. it is very fun to work along and have fun with all the residents in the home even when they play there old song that they made.


in the actors fund we all call ourself family. Even though sometimes we dont like to come to work on the days that we have to we still take it out of our time to get up in the morning and get ready for work

Ray Heatherton was born in the New York City suburb of Orange, New Jersey (some sources indicate Jersey City) and was first introduced to music upon joining a boys' choir at his church. He sang with the choir until his family moved to another of the city's suburbs, the Long Island village of Floral Park

Dahnerts Lake County Park by Yesica

By: Deborah Chamberlain

Dahnerts Lake County Park is located in Garfield, NJ.  Dahnerts Lake is a community park that families goes to. Throughout the park there are picnic tables for friends and families to use. Many kids enjoy the playground area where they can play on the swings, slides, or climb the wall. Many people will ride their bikes in the park, jog, or walk around the lake. There is also a fishing spot for people.

Emporia Birds Eye View Map 1907

 Before the park existed, this whole area had almost nothing on it. In the 1907 picture above, you can only see a few small structures where the park is currently located.

history

In 1920, this area was called the Pump House. Later in 1938, the park changed its name to Dahnerts Lake. In that time people were able to ice-skate in the lake during the winter season.

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 Over the years the park changed. The white ducks left and the water became too polluted to freeze during the winter.

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An island that once held a beautiful weeping willow tree collapsed. The park was recently renovated thanks to a federal grant.



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“The Playground Guide” Bergen County Edition

Angel Lounge by Colette

This is what the angel longe was in 1963.

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This is what the angel longe is today. Today the angel longe is called Romono-Son.

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Overview Of the book the Night Of The Devil

On the evening of Sunday, August 25, 1963, a group of revelers drove into the small town of Lodi, New Jersey, bound for a local tavern called the Angel Lounge. Hours later, bullets ripped through the smoky air of the bar. When the carnage ended, two Lodi police officers were dead. Their killers had escaped. The close-knit community of Lodi, shattered by the crime, would never be the same. Nor would the families of the victims: Sergeant Peter Voto, who left behind a wife and three children, and 22-year-old Gary Tedesco, whose career in law enforcement had barely begun when his life was brutally cut short. The people of Lodi vowed that the killers would pay for what they had done. One of the hoodlums was shot and killed two days after the murders. The other, Thomas Trantino, was imprisoned and sentenced to die for his crime. But Trantino would not be put to death in New Jersey; nor would he spend the rest of his life in prison. After being incarcerated for almost 40 years, and earning the distinction of being the longest-serving prisoner in the New Jersey penal system, Thomas Trantino ultimately walked out of prison a free man.

The murder of the policemen in the Angel Lounge remains one of the most notorious crimes in New Jersey history, yet there has never been an in-depth examination of the case and its aftermath -- until now. Night of the Devil takes readers inside the crime, from the blood-spattered Angel Lounge to the courtroom where Thomas Trantino presented testimony that would keep him locked up for decades. As they trace Trantino's tortuous path from death row to freedom, readers will be forced to confront their own attitudes about punishment and justice. How could a man who shot two policemen in cold blood -- a man who was supposed to die for what he did, whose despicable act inflamed the passions of politicians, judges, and entire communities -- ever be allowed to walk among us again? When the rules say it is time for a guilty man to go free, should the rules be changed to keep him imprisoned? Where do victims' rights end and prisoners' rights begin? Night of the Devil probes the answers to these questions, raising issues that compel readers to reevaluate their feelings about America's criminal justice system. Thomas Trantino's quest for freedom came to an end a generation after he committed a horrible crime. Did he serve more time than he should have? Or could no amount of time ever make up for what the people of Lodi lost in 1963?

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by-David Stout

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two 1963 Slayings Still Rouse Passions in Lodi, N.J.

 

 

 

By ROBERT HANLEY

Published: October 03, 1996

 

The reason is Thomas Trantino. Not the Thomas Trantino of old photographs, neat in a suit and tie, clean-shaven. Not the Thomas Trantino described by his lawyer as a model prisoner and by corrections officials as ''well-adjusted.'' It is the other Thomas Trantino, the one who pistol-whipped and shot at point-blank range a 40-year-old police sergeant who was responding to a noise complaint at the Angel Lounge, a bar on Route 46.That Thomas Trantino is the reason the slayings of the sergeant and a 21-year-old police trainee who also answered the call, 33 years ago this August, remain an open wound in Lodi. A friend of Mr. Trantino's, Frank Falco, who shot and killed the trainee, was killed by the police after a struggle in his midtown Manhattan hotel two days after the officers' deaths.

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This band was playing at the angel lounge the night of the shooting.

 

 

Route 4 Drive-In Movie Theater by Ms. Waller

Although it is difficult to believe now, there was once a drive-in movie theater on Route 4 in Paramus on the edge of what is now the Westfield Garden State Plaza.  It entertained New Jerseyans on steamy summer nights from at least the late thirties until the 1980s. There's only a parking lot there now, but many locals have fond memories of watching cheesy horror films and sweet musicals there. That, of course, after stuffing their slimmest friends into big, American car trunks to get the most bang out of the drive-in's pay per carload price.

An aerial view of the drive-in before the second World War and the mall.

The mall and the theater in peaceful co-existence.

Wouldn't it be loverly to go back to those simpler times?